Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
Re Latvala - I dont want him back at M-Sport. Its time to give a younger guy another chance.
I think MSport needs at least one "established" driver for multiple reasons:

- comparison for the youngsters/inexperienced
- "independent" comparison with speed of other cars
- help with car setup/feedback during the rallies (Suninen was really vocal about this and missing Evans this year in Finland)
- car development

Both Latvala and Mikkelsen would work for that, maybe in a way better than Evans, cause Evans never drove a different WRC car.

If you have MSport with say Suninen, Greensmith and Tidemand/or some other new driver it might be really hard to even "sell" Suninen to other teams later, cause it would be close to impossible to tell how good really is unless he suddenly starts finishing on podium in every second rally, which is rather unlikely. So even Joukhi and other "customer" should be interested in MSport having some driver like that.